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There is only two more days until I leave for my 5 week trip to HK, Thailand and China.


I'M NOT READY TO GO YET. I NEED MORE DAYS IN NZ.


Trying to pack things into my dirty red Elle suitcase, but so far I have hardly anything in it.


This may take a while.

Yesterday, I dyed my hair pink with Cleo.

More photos and video up soon ! :)

I feel 8 years old again

Do you ever feel like going back to those times where the only things that mattered were playing tag on the playgrounds at lunch time, whether your best friend was in the same class as you, and if you made it back home on time after school to catch your favourite TV shows?

The other day I found a dress that I wore when I was younger.

My mum liked to dress me up - but whose mother didn't, right?

I've only worn this dress once as a little girl, but I tried it on and it still fits! Except its a million times shorter and I would never dare to wear it in public.

But I thought it would be fun to dress up and take some pictures, and pretend I was a little girl again ! (Yes, I do have a lot of free time)

Too bad the photos turned out so yellow.  But here are some anyway :)

OH BABY.

Yes, this post is actually going to be about babies.


I have a soft spot for anything cute, and I think babies are sooooo adorable !


My auntie just recently had a baby, around a week ago now.


Unnamed Baby Boy: Photos at 1 day old ♥

Lachlan: Two months old ♥

Soon

I thought I had a lot of time.

But there is only 11 more days.

SO SOON, but also so excited ! :)

Our plan for end of Dec and Jan :)

3AM in the morning

I think I get too into television dramas.


It's 3am - I'm sacrificing my beauty sleep to watch an episode of 【我可能不會愛你】. Smart move Christine.


Also, I often find myself yelling at the computer screen.
Why did he delete her text? 
Why is she doing that??
OMG that guy is such a tool, get together with the other guy!


Its a freaking drama - everything is supposed to be exaggerated, everything is supposed to be so 'dramatic',


Another thing, I tend to try predict what the actors will say - and 99% of the time I will get it right, or be very. very close.


Everything is so unrealistic that its predictable.


So why do I keep watching these shows then?


Because I like predictability.
I like knowing that in the end, love will win and the main characters will be all happy and (most likely) get married. 


During exams, I watched 【泡沫之夏】.
LOL, that show ... is pretty bad. Everything is soooooo over-dramatic
but I managed to watch each and every single episode. (Maybe thats the reason why I failed my exams)


I realise I have an unhealthy addiction to Asian dramas, just like my addiction to the stupid reality shows on E! and MTV.


Funny thing is, I wouldn't waste a day to watch these shows, but I would sacrifice my sleeping time to watch it.


And, once I start watching I have to finish.


Too bad that doesn't apply in life.


-----------------------off to sleep now.

I am (not) telling the truth

What are you supposed to do when you realise someone is straight up lying to you?

Lying is a very common theme in children stories.

The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood lied about being Red's grandmother.

The father of the girl in Rumpelstiltskin lied about her daughter being able to spin straw into gold.

Pinocchio's nose grew longer every time he lied.

The boy who cried wolf lied so much no one believed him when he told the truth.


You've lied to me before, why should I believe you this time?


These stories are supposed to teach children not to lie, and that 'honesty is the best policy.' We grow up being taught this, but what stops us from making up a little white lie?

On average, people lie 4 times a day. So how many of these lies go unnoticed?
(How can we even trust these statistics???)

I watched 'The Invention of Lying' a couple of months ago.
It is set in an alternate reality where there is no such thing as lying. People feel compelled to share their thoughts and feelings with often brutal honesty.
The protagonist, described as a 'chubby little loser', discovers the act of lying when he lies to the bank about how much money he has in his account. He is the only liar in a world full of people who haven't really evolved the ability to lie. So after the bank incident, he just lies about everything to get his own way e.g. telling women that the world will end if they don't have sex with him, lying to steal money from the casino etc etc.


It was a super boring movie, and I fell asleep near the end, but the idea is quite clever. I'm not gonna write an essay about it, but I just wanna say how its kinda stupid the main character can lie about anything without suspicion from anyone. I guess it shows how easy it really is for someone to lie and get away with it.


We lie when we don't want people to know what we are really thinking. We lie about our feelings and thoughts. We lie when we don't want feelings to get hurt.
We also lie when we want attention and when we want to fit in. We want acceptance, even if its for what we make ourselves out to be. 
We lie to our parents, friends, teachers, employers, acquaintances and even random strangers.


Lying is unavoidable - no one can tell the truth all the time. 
I guess we just have to figure out when it is okay to tell a little white lie, but we also have to consider the consequences. Or if its better to just shut our mouths and not say anything at all.
I'll admit I'm not the most honest person in the world, but I'd like to think I know when I should be telling the truth. And when I don't want to tell the truth, I would usually just not say anything. But I am only human. Anyone who tells you that they "never lie" is obviously lying.

It feels so horrible when you find out someone is lying to you. Especially if you don't know whether to confront them or just let it be.
I'm guessing it feels even worse when your lie is discovered. 


Yeah I don't know where I'm going with this.

Lost

OMG ONE OF OUR TURTLES IS MISSING.

I know right - WTF, how can it go missing?

I have no idea.

So I woke up this morning and went to get some breakfast, just like any morning. 

On my way to the kitchen, I would pass the fish tank. 

My mum usually takes the turtles out, and puts them in an ice cream container to feed them - so the tank doesn't get dirty and stuff.

But when I looked into the container, there was only one turtle inside. So I started freaking out and checked the tank to see if the turtle was there.

But it wasn't.

So I called my mum and told her what happened. She said that there were two turtles in the morning, and that the turtle probably just climbed out of the container and told me to look around for it.

WTF, how does it climb out of the container???? 

Firstly, the container was on top of the table, and around it was completely dry. If the turtle climbed out of a container filled with water, the table would be wet, right?

And secondly, my house is freaking massive (from a tiny turtle's perspective), where the hell wouldn't it go?

I LOOKED IN SO MANY PLACES, I CAN'T FIND IT.

What if it's stuck somewhere and doesn't crawl out and it dries up after a couple of days and dies?????

This post is such a mess, but I can't find the turtle and my mum told me to leave it and it would just come out on its own. Hopefully.

Turtles can't climb stairs, right???

School spirit

"Epsom are you ready ready? YES WE ARE READY READY !

Epsom are you ready ready? YES WE ARE READY READY !

Rarr rarr rarr, who are we? EPSOM, THE GOLDEN TEAM.
Rarr rarr rarr, who are we? EPSOM, THE VICTORY ! "

^ A chant every Epsom girl should know.

Graduation dinner on the 30th will officially mark the ending of my high school life.

Next year, we will be moving away from the familiar, and stepping into the unknown.

So,

EPSOM ARE WE READY READY?

Yes, I am.

Epsom Girls Leavers, Class of '11.

Cute overload

A random story I want to share.
The other day, I had company while waiting for the bus.

This little guy was outside my gate when I came outside my house. (I don't know if it was male or female, so I'm just gonna call it 'Ginger' - for obvious reasons)
As I was locking my doors, Ginger started walking towards me. When I got close, it lay down and started acting all cute - pretty much asking me to play with it. 
I'm a sucker for cute animals - why am I so weak-willed?


So I played with Ginger for a while, but then I had to leave and go to the bus stop.
Because I'm lazy and because the bus stop is practically three steps from my front door, I always leave the house minutes for the bus comes. So I couldn't spend a lot of time dilly-dallying. So I crossed the road.
Ginger looked both ways before it followed me across the road (cute right?!)
And then it just casually sat beside me on the bench for a while.

Turtles

I'm so bored. At my cousins house.
My cousins are playing PS3, my sister is watching Vampire Diaries and my parents and my aunties are playing mahjong.
What about me? I have my turtle friends to play with :)


My cousin and I got the turtles at the same time.
And now his turtles are twice the size of ours, and they are so much friendlier !
Like when you put your face up to the glass, the don't swim away like ours do, they come up to you and expect you to feed it.

LOOK, my cousin's hat matches my shirt.

OMG IM SO BORED.

Procrastination at IC

For the past few days, the weather has been really nice. The sun is out, it's not too cold or too hot.
As the Uni students come to the end of their exams, and the end of their university year, us high-schoolers are cursed to study for the upcoming externals.

Oh wait, my bad, it is not only the Uni students, but also students taking Cambridge that are nearly finishing.
THIS IS WHY I HATE NCEA.

I've been going to IC everyday this week. Yes, it's only Thursday but studying four days in a row is rare for me. I think I've done some semi-productive learning over the past few days.
How long will I able to keep this up? With three weeks of exams coming, I know that I won't be motivated enough to study for that long. (And then I'll fail my exams and not get into Uni and then my 'life plan' will commence.)
My last exam is on 30 Nov, same day as Graduation dinner. Or 24 Nov, if I decide not to attend Scholarship Eco. But I have so long to study for it, I might as well.

Last week was my last ever week at high school, at Epsom Girls Grammar - the place I have been going to practically every weekday for the past five years. I should be a little emotional that I'm leaving, right? Then why don't I feel anything? At leavers assembly on the last day, there were girls crying. I didn't even feel the littlest bit sad.
It is true Epsom Girls has shaped me to the person I am today. But I am not sad that it's over, I'm happy that it happened. Through this school, I have met many people, formed many friendships and created many memories that I will cherish and remember forever - or at least a very long time.
However, there of course were some not-so-happy moments also. But you can't expect there to be no silly girl-drama at an all girls school.

Maybe I'll write more in EGGS some other time, I have to get back to studying so I can get into university next year and not have to drop out and join a gang.

But this time next year, I won't be stuck indoors studying for exams. No, I'll be having fun outdoors with my friends. And it will be my turn to laugh at the high-schoolers cramming like no tomorrow.

18.

Eighteen is the legal age to:

• Become legally independent from parent guardianship
• Joining the police force
• Buy cigarettes
• Buy/drinking alcohol
• Get a tattoo
• Go clubbing
• Getting married without parental consent
• Making a will

(I think NZ is suggesting something...)

To celebrate my new found independence, I am going to drop out of school and join the police force. Due to catching speeding drivers and not dealing with anything remotely important in our society, not to mention eating doughnuts and drinking hot coffee all day, I will start smoking to relieve all the stress. 

I will start to realise this career path of justice is not for me, and quit to join a gang. I will cover myself in tattoos of completely unrelated and unmeaningful symbols, characters and letters on every part of my body. Facial piercings are cool too, right? Nose studs, lip rings and eyebrow piercings - I might as well get some of those too. My rebellious/mafia/bad girl look will then be complete with the hottest and baddest looking motorbike, filling the streets with the roars from my engine everywhere I go.

Gang shootings? No problem. Being the boss I am, I will come out alive without any scratches on me every single time.

On top of that, I am going to get drunk every night at the club and maybe one day, I will decide to elope with a random guy that I will have known for only five minutes.

Tragically, I will be diagnosed with lung cancer and a liver problem and will only have six months to live. I will start writing my will, which will be everything I have left after spending all my money on drugs and motorbike accessories. 

Lying on my death bed, I will then reminisce of all the good times before I turned 18, and wonder why my life turned out this way.

And then I die.

Yup, this is my new life plan. Happy 18th Birthday to me.

COUNTDOWN

HK TRIP

Can school just be over already?
I have more exciting things waiting for me ahead.

It is never only one person's fault

To get my mind off of certain things, I wrote this letter(ish). It doesn't make sense unless you know already. Just a warning.


Something's been on my mind lately, and it's been bothering me for a while now. I want to tell you in person, but I'm not sure how to. You probably won't even listen to me - not that you're ever around anyway.
I am writing this to get something off my chest. I don't want this to bother me anymore. By writing this, I hope that one day in the future you will stumble across it and read it with a calm and collected mind. There may be some things you won't agree with, but don't get angry, this has been my mind for quite some time.


We have been drifting apart for around two years now, I think it started around the beginning of Yr12. Last year my sister told me, "I saw ****** today, she told me you guys aren't really friends anymore because you guys don't talk." 
True, I guess. But does that mean we're not friends anymore?
(FYI:The number of stars do not represent the name of the person, I just felt like clicking Shift+8 that many times)


Anyways, that was last year. What really got me thinking was a Saturday this year, when we went to the movies together. As we were walking to 277 after the movie, you suddenly left crying because I said something that may have hurt you.


That night when the five of us had that talk, you made me feel extremely guilty. I felt like I had been a really bad friend. You opened up, about how you thought things aren't the same, how we all aren't as close anymore.


But when I went home and thought about it, it seemed like you blamed us for the deterioration of our friendship. Yes, maybe we were at fault, but so were you. Both parties need to be pulling the same weight for it to work. Otherwise, one side will get tired of making all the effort.

They grow up so fast

Its extremely funny watching a group of ladies about to hit their mid-life crises making kissy faces at a 6 month old baby.


The other day I went Yum Char with my mum for the first time in ages (because she guilt tripped me). 
My baby cousin Lachlan was there also.


He is usually very shy, and does not like to be separated from his mum (unless you distract him with a shiny silver necklace)
But that day, he decided to be more social.


HE IS SO CUTE OMG.

♥

Pig Sty?

I decided to have a big clean out, and throw away my old stuff.


This is how my room looks like now:

(I reconstructed the hearts on my wall cus they were falling apart)

I've never been a really tidy, or organised type of person. But it works for me. I can find things easier this way. Sometimes.

I'm a bit of hoarder. I don't like to throw things out, just in case it would come in handy in the future. But that never happens, does it? Everything just starts piling up and next thing you know, you have hardly any storage space left so you end up stacking books on the floor and your mum comes in and starts nagging on about how uncomfortable she feels looking at your room and how a girl's room shouldn't look like a pigs sty blah blah blah blah blah (yes I know that doesn't make sense -)

My mum wasn't the only reason I decided to clean my room though. I lost my USB cable for my hard-drive for a couple of days now, and honestly, no matter where I looked, I COULD NOT FIND IT. I had a feeling it was somewhere around my bed, so I search through all these bags of stuff that was in the gap between my bed and wall.


I didn't find my cable, but I did find other interesting things - 

My sister is a troll.

My sister found out about my formspring account, and decided to ask me a couple of random questions.

This is why I don't accept her friend request on facebook.

Bye to my baby.

Today, I got a haircut. I haven't had one since February.

I've had the same hairstyle since Yr11. 
I have 5 different shades of brown in my hair.

My hair was so dead from all the dying. I was so fed up with the dryness, the split ends - so I decided to cut it short.

My head feels so much lighter now.

Washing my hair takes half the time.
My neck is cold ...

Change is good right? 

What do you think of my new hairstyle?

So much hair, goneee....

I don't think I suit short hair. It looks so weird, but people will get used to it.

Sunset at Muriwai

This is one of my favourite photos. And always will be one of my favourites.

My, have things changed since then.

♥

Biggest Facepalm on MSN 2010.

Look what I dug up !

Here's a msn conversation that makes me laugh everytime I read it.

It may be embarrassing for some people in it, but I want to share this and make everyone laugh too.

Read this when you are feeling down, I'm sure it'll make you smile/laugh/cry - like it does for me :)

This was during one of our late night MD MSN conversations back in 2010.

Just a casual convo about a girl's menstruation cycle.

Enjoy.

A walk in the sun

Left, or right? Choices, choices choices. Decisions, opportunity costs.

Today, I decided to go for a walk while the sun was out. 
So I grabbed my camera, and away I went.

For the RWC, each suburb gets a country to represent.
Royal Oak/Greenwoods Corner represented Tonga.

Bloody tests.

It has nearly been one year since blood donor day at my school.

Last year, I thought I'd be a good person and try something new. So with Cleo and Anna, we decided to donate blood. 

I'm not afraid of needles, and it was only around 500mL of blood. The worst that could happen was that I could get a numb arm and a little bit of bruising. No biggie.

At that time, I thought by signing up to donate blood I could:

- Find out my blood type

- Get a Blood Donors card

- Skip class

Oh, and of course, save lives too.

This man apparently has 2008 needles in his head. Crazzyyy right?????

On the day, after a million hours of waiting, turns out, I can't donate blood.

No, it's not because I'm not heavy enough, or my iron levels are too low, but its because 

MY VEINS ARE TOO THIN. WTF.

I still remember the words the man said to me.

"Christine, you haven't grown up yet! You're veins are too thin, thinner than our needles, See? You can't donate blood, maybe you can try again next year." (Along the lines of those words) He said that they won't be able to get blood without it hurting and bruising.

*&TGU$((*Y89((weoi*&$@!?

Funny thing was, a lot of people got turned down also. Because their iron levels weren't high enough, they were sick recently etc etc. I remember  the next day, asking everyone that was lining up with me whether they donated blood, and most of them said they couldn't. One of the only people I knew that actually did end up donating blood was Anna. And she was pretty much dragged along by Cleo and I (We decided we wanted to skip Bio together LOL).

Yeah, that was my fail blood donation experience.
I didn't even try sign up this year. My veins have not gotten any bigger.

They told me I could go to a blood center, where they could try use smaller needles to extract blood from my veins. Maybe I'll go there someday.

Freeeeedom.

09/09/11 - RWC Opening was AMAZING. Enough said. So proud of NZ.

Well, I will never EVER have to sit a mock exam EVER EVER AGAIN. High school mocks are over, and after a few months, high school exams will be history. 
I can't believe mocks were only two days ago. I feel like I've done so much after that.


On Friday, it was the opening of the Rugby World Cup. At first I wasn't that keen on going, but then I thought, might as well, mocks are over.
I'm actually really glad I went. Auckland was so alive. I have never seen so many people supporting for one's country. Everywhere I looked there was a Tongan flag.
Quote from William: "Thought I was in Tonga for a moment."

 

Some random dude with a China flag. "China is the world champions of table tennis!"

Overall, it was a fun night. I watched my first ever rugby game on the big screen. I was never into sports but the atmosphere was so lively, I couldn't help but get into the game also. 
There were some girls behind us rooting for Tonga - "Thats ma husband, thats ma uncle, oh and that big guy right there, thats ma daddyyy." HAHA. 


Yeah, glad I went.




10/09/11 - Auckland Art Gallery
The Auckland Art Gallery opened around last last week. I saw it when I was walking past to go study. I REEEALLLY wanted to go in but I resisted temptation and went and studied like the good girl I am :)
So yesterday, the first official day of freedom, I went to the Art Gallery.
We were there for around 2 hours, and although we went to every room in the gallery, I don't feel like I saw everything. I will definitely go back again some other time to look at everything more closely.

 

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So this is what it feels like.

Horoscope - Scorpio

Sunday, Sep 4th, 2011 -- You're feeling a lot of pressure that seems to fall squarely on your shoulders now, but fortunately you know that your efforts are appreciated. The uplifting Sagittarius Moon in your 2nd House of Self-Esteem reminds you to look on the bright side of things, boosting your confidence. But don't waste energy pretending that you are okay with things as they are if you're not. Take time to process your feelings; ultimately, releasing them will bring you increased vitality.

Please, kill me now.

I hate studying. I spent what feels like forever trying to study for my Classics exam on Friday. I don't think I've even done a quarter of what I need to know.


Classics, why don't you love me :(


Why is studying so boring? 
Why does everything around you suddenly seem a million times more interesting?



I'm so slack, I should have started ages ago.
But instead I procrastinate - watch youtube videos, asian dramas, answer questions on formspring refresh homepage on facebook etc
I don't have my priorities right. 

I have these cute little folders which I put my notes in - just to brighten my mood a bit :)

I can't wait for this to be over, even before it has started. 




Omg, I just noticed the *drag button on the bottom of the posting box. This is so exciting !




This is probably the most pointless post ever, I guess I'm just procrastinating.

CUTE ALERT

29/08/11


I didn't have school today (Teacher's only day) so I decided to go study with Jisu.
Except I woke up at 12:30pm, and when I got to ic4 it was already like 3pm.
And it didn't feel like I did alot in the 7 hours I was there.
Fail study day.


Anyways, I wanted to share some cute videos of puppies that I found on Youtube.
OMG, they are so freaking cute I want to get one :(

These ones are soooooo adorable! They are so tiny and hyper. DO YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THEM? They look like giant fluffy balls of fur. O.M.G.

I want a puppy so bad now, this isn't helping :(

(Kinda sad this is how I spend my time ...)

Flying Chickens of Evil

I hate pigeons. They are everywhere.
I have developed a fear and hatred of pigeons ever since I started school at EGGS. Oh and seagulls too. Can't forget them.

Reasons why I don't like pigeons:
(I apologise in advance to any pigeon-lovers. But seriously, go find a puppy to love okay? Pigeons aren't worth your time.)


1) PIGEONS ARE EVIL. Their creepy little eyes, their sharp beaks that eat everything in sight, the disgusting sound they make when they flap their wings. Evil. They are so pointless. They stroll around like they own the place. Ugh, can I just shoot every pigeon I see, roast them and feed them to the hungry and starving in third world countries? Then pigeons will be of some use - for once in their insignificant lives. Pigeons should just die in a hole - no one will miss them.


2) Pigeons are inconsiderate little bastards. They crap everywhere. Why do they do that? Seriously, why do that kinda business while flying in the air?! It's like they TRY to aim their crap at people, and then laugh at them from above. Evil.
I guess I'm lucky enough to have gone through five years at EGGS and not have a pigeon poop on me, but I can't say much for others though.


3) Pigeons aren't afraid of people. Well, at least the ones at EGGS aren't. You can pretty much walk next to them and they wouldn't fly away. WHY? Why can't they be scared of humans so I won't be scared of them? Why can't they just run off when we go near them? 
Once, at lunchtime, we were just sitting around talking. AND OMFG, THERE WAS A PIGEON CASUALLY RESTING BEHIND US. WTF. (I wonder who took pictures ...) 
You know how a chicken sits on their eggs to keep them warm? Yeah, like that. Ew.
I think that bird hated being a pigeon, so it wanted to J.I. with us, pretend it was one of us humans. That's how much life as a pigeon sucks.


Oh, and some pigeons fly really low. Aren't they scared they will fly into people? Cus I am. I don't want to get into an accident with a pigeon.